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markg
at Fri Sep 24 19:24:40 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]
It isn't, well, "a 3ft cage means one won't eat the other." No. Its about whether one snake thinks the other is not in its colony so to speak. (And perhaps there are even crazy individuals who are quick to kill another.)
An "outsider" snake to a Cal king, even if another Cal king, might be considered a meal under some circumstances by certain individual snakes. Not all act the exact same of course. But what if the other Cal king is not an "outsider"?
I had a B&W Cal king female that would attack both males I tried to breed with her. This was over 10 yrs ago, and at the time I had just gotten the idea to cool all my kings in one big plywood box outside.
After I let them stew together over Winter in that big box, I noticed she would hang out comfortably with one of the males. When I bred those two, she did not attack him at all.
Does that help? Kind of get the picture of what happened? I know that's only one example, but it is evidence. Ain't about cage size, but of course you should give them some elbow room out of the goodness of your heart and so they have a big gradient.
BTW, I found a Cal king swallowing a gophersnake, and a smaller Cal king was trying to get the gophersnake's tail end. I watched the whole process, and the small Cal gave up. Both the big Cal and the small Cal went down the same crevice afterwards. So why didn't the big Cal eat the small Cal? Ahh, grasshopper, you must ponder..
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Mark
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RE: Communal Housing Question - markg, Fri Sep 24 19:24:40 2010